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Letter "H" » humped
«There it stands ablaze, like a slab of fire, with its parade of white flagstaffs gleaming in the street light, and the humped black limousines patient at the door.»
«It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.»
Author: Kwame Nkrumah
(President)
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«And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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all the same, beasts, darlings, ever so, go down, go down on, hump, humped, inclination, knees, oftener, set down, thankful, The Field, the Hump
«The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.»
«Chandler: I can't say hump or screw in front of the b-a-b-y... I just spelled the wrong words didn't I?»
«Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.»
«He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.»
«A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt»
«We get the Hump - / Cameelious Hump - / The Hump that is black and blue!»
«A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes.»
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